The theory that drives this course suggests that transactional writing (or "composing") is completed for the benefit of a community with the expectation that some feedback or action will occur as a result. All writing or composing occurs, then, in the context of a knowledge community. The more we know about that knowledge community, the more likely our 'writing' will be useful, powerful, impressive, important, and worthy of action. When you write professionally, you aren't just writing. You are managing knowledge in and for a community.
Professional Blog/Wiki Spaces
If you are going to write into a knowledge community, you need a "writing" space to which they have access. Blogs and wikis provide such a space and are well suited for our purposes.
Each person in the class will be creating blogs or wikis that provide a writing space for the serial collecting, annotating, and reviewing of professional materials or events:
places and spaces worth visiting physically or virtually
events that take place locally or online
Audio mini-documentaries
Each person in class will create a mini-documentary based on your classmates' technology stories: stories resulting from answers to the following prompts:
Describe an important moment in your life that influenced your relationship with technology (Mine involved a lawnmower! :-).
Tell a story about how you learned a new communication technology.
Describe a situation (story) that illustrates some concern you have about the use of communication technologies in your profession.
Describe an experience that made you want to learn a new communication technology.
Journalistic Electronic Expressions: Written, Aural, & Visual
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Professional Blog/Wiki Spaces
If you are going to write into a knowledge community, you need a "writing" space to which they have access. Blogs and wikis provide such a space and are well suited for our purposes.
Each person in the class will be creating blogs or wikis that provide a writing space for the serial collecting, annotating, and reviewing of professional materials or events:
Audio mini-documentaries
Each person in class will create a mini-documentary based on your classmates' technology stories: stories resulting from answers to the following prompts:
Go to this wiki page for samples of these mini-documentaries: http://e-wave.wikispaces.com/Journalistic+audio
For more information contact Richard (Dickie) Selfe, <selfe.3@osu.edu>, 614-688-4373